Land Transportation Timeline

By AminaSayyeda

  • Hot Air Ballon

    The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons

  • First cable car invented

  • Steamboat invented

  • Modern bicycles invented

  • First steamboat with regular passenger service - inventor Robert Fulton's Clermont

  • hydrogen gas powered vehicle

    Isaac de Rivas makes a hydrogen gas powered vehicle - first with internal combustion power - however, very unsuccessful design

  • Jean Lenoir makes a gasoline engine automobile

  • The Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engined airplane

  • Very first helicopter - unsuccessful design

  • Henry Ford Invents

    Henry Ford improves the assembly line for automobile manufacturing

  • Horse are used for transportation

    Horses are domesticated and used for transportation.

  • Wheels were invented

    Fixed wheels on carts are invented - the first wheeled vehicles in history. Other early wheeled vehicles include the chariot.